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How to use the word honking in a Sentence?

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When we were doing the shoot at Whataburger the reaction was insane, people in the drive thru honking and waving and cheering us on ! it was an amazing day !

Hailee Bage

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I started honking my horn. I started swerving and we got a little ahead of him and then for whatever reason the cars in front of me kind of parted.

Shauna Saxton

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I started honking my horn, making noises, trying to make a commotion, trying to make people aware that something was going on. I rolled down my windows and started yelling at people, I wanted them to get out of the way.

Police Chief Mark Saunders

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You have drones now, you’ve got people honking at one another, sometimes you still get a tour van that gets on their loudspeaker that announces that this person’s house is this celebrity … these all are the types of things you did n’t expect when you moved here 20 years ago.

Sheila Irani

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Figures in black balaclavas assist in the humiliation. With mistress-of-stunts Katie Mitchell directing, we have, from the start, ambient noise, honking klaxons, cage doors clanking, fizzing strip-lights -- no cliche is spared.

Daily Mail reviewer Quentin Letts

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are just too many bells and whistles on the steering column, either to push, pull, scroll, hold down, release, etc. By the time I remember which one to use, there's already a row of cars behind me honking to park my car, safe driving, and also understanding the general mechanics of a car, are so engrained in the way we drive that it's hard to separate that and allow our car to make those judgments.

Kirstin Houser

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I see bodies everywhere, there are cars on fire, there are bikes everywhere, people are screaming and shouting,... everybody is honking. It is utter chaos and mayhem.

Sanjeev Vyas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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